Author: Leona Amosah

On April 1, 2019, the Atlantic Council hosted a panel exploring foreign, particularly Kremlin, interference in the first round of the March 31 Ukrainian presidential election as part of the Ukrainian Election Task Force’s public event. The panel consisted of team leaders from the Task Force: Olekisy Melnyk, kinetic lead and co-director of the...

On March 26, Facebook removed 2632 pages, groups, and accounts from its platforms, accusing them of inauthentic behavior. The largest subset of these, as outlined in a Facebook newsroom post, was a collection of 1907 pages, groups, and accounts linked to Russia. The DFRLab had the opportunity to briefly look at some of these 1907 assets...

On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, the Ukrainian Election Task Force, in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, held a panel discussion in Brussels on foreign interference efforts in Ukraine’s upcoming presidential election. Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Founder & Chairman of Alliance of Democracies...

Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s security council, accused Ukraine’s government of submitting to the West’s agenda at the expense of its own citizens. Patrushev claims, “the Kiev authorities are doing everything to split Ukraine, implementing the West’s scenario to break Ukraine away from Russia, while ignoring the interests of its own people.” In an...